Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Loss of Wind Causes Texas Power Grid Emergency
February 28th, 2008In other words, this is the second major anomalous power outage in less than a day. (See: South Florida incident.) Via: Reuters: A drop in wind generation late on Tuesday, coupled with colder weather, triggered an electric emergency that caused the Texas grid operator to cut service to some large customers, the grid agency said […]
Millions Lost Power in Florida
February 27th, 2008So fragile. Via: Miami Herald: Power has been restored to the vast majority of the millions of South Floridians and other state residents who endured a major blackout Tuesday — a failure caused by a fire in a Miami-Dade County substation, according to utility officials. Virtually everyone in South Florida had power by 5:30 p.m. […]
Canada: Apocalyptic Oil Sand Operations
February 25th, 2008As bad as this seems, it’s just a preview of things to come. I could be wrong, but my guess is that asymmetric operations against the energy companies—inside G8 states—will begin if the insane decision is made to go with nuclear power to provide the heat necessary to recover the oil from these deposits. There […]
UN: Saboteurs May Have Cut Mideast Telecom Cables
February 19th, 2008“I wouldn’t be surprised, however, if the Them were to bring the Internet down as a false flag operation, blame Bin Laden, et al. and provide the pretext for the economic collapse that is, in reality, long over due. If the Internet comes down… it will indicate that the Them feel that there is nothing […]
U.S. to Try to Shoot Down Spy Satellite
February 15th, 2008Remember how the Magic Anchor took out those undersea fiber optic cables recently, and how the network operators re-routed some of the traffic; satellite links played a key role. In strategic information warfare, decapitation means taking out not only the primary links, but the backup ones as well. I’d imagine that .mil would have had […]
Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA
February 14th, 2008Another mulibillion dollar boondoggle. In the Wired piece below, there’s just one voice of reason. John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, says, “They’ve got the whole thing tarted up, and it’s hard to tell what they’re actually doing.” That’s it. He gets it. Information Warfare is part of the military industrial complex now, but look into […]
Rand Sinks as South African Electricity Grid Fails
February 12th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Gold is above $900 an ounce and platinum has never been higher, yet traders are selling the South African rand faster than any other major currency because President Thabo Mbeki can’t keep the lights on. The rand is down 12 percent this year against the dollar, six times more than the next-worst performer […]
BlackBerry Service Out in North America
February 12th, 2008Via: AP: A major service outage afflicted users of the popular, addictive BlackBerry smart phones across the United States and Canada on Monday, wireless carriers said. Officials with AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless said BlackBerry maker Research in Motion Ltd. told them customers of all wireless carriers were affected. It was not immediately clear how […]
Bomb ‘Hoax’ Leads to Air Evacuation of Oil Platform
February 11th, 2008I thought that the Magic Anchor was still on the loose! Via: Independent: The Special Boat Service and the RAF joined a huge emergency response to reports of a bomb on a North Sea oil platform, which included plans to evacuate more than 500 people. The Special Boat Service and the RAF joined a huge […]
The FBI and InfraGard
February 9th, 2008Via: Progressive: Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to […]
